Cannot bulk load. Operating system error code 5 (Access is denied.)

Question

For some weird reason I\'m having problems executing a bulk insert.

BULK INSERT customer_stg
FROM \'C:\\Users\\Michael\\workspace\\pydb\\data\\andrew.out.txt\         


        

Answer 1

I have come to similar question when I execute the bulk insert in SSMS it's working but it failed and returned with "Operation system failure code 5" when converting the task into SQL Server Agent.

After browsing lots of solutions posted previously, this way solved my problem by granting the NT SERVER/SQLSERVERAGENT with the 'full control" access right to the source folder. Hope it would bring some light to these people who are still struggling with the error message.